| the role of skin bank in the treatment of severely burnt patients. | the accessibility of suitable temporary covers plays the key role in the treatment of severe skin losses. biological covers have got the longest tradition in the wound healing. skin banks are engaged in their production and distribution. already in 1973 j. moserová developed the methodology of harvesting pig xenografts. later on, the short-term and the long-term method of storage were verified (böhm, konícková, vogtová). in 1986, the skin bank in the prague burn centre was established. in prague ... | 2004 | 15462066 |
| experience with banked skin in the prague burn center. | despite progress in materials science, the use of human allografts and xenografts of pig origin is in the prague burn center among the preferred means of temporary burn wound cover since 1973. true closure is achieved only with living autografts or isografts (identical twins). the method for preparing fresh porcine grafts was introduced in prague 25 years ago: dermoepidermal sheets are retrieved in strips, are treated with a lavage of chemotherapeutics and antibiotics, are spread onto sterile we ... | 1999 | 10439519 |